Have you by chance read “The Woman Chaser” by Charles Willeford? You brought it to mind for me in two ways. First because I admire the way he handles time and transitions in the story. And second because near the end, the main character gets into a violent struggle about how long his movie should run. The producers have proposed dismembering his work in two different ways, either expanding it into a meaningless television series and discarding the movie distribution, or cutting the movie so severely as to demolish the story.
Dear Billionaire Psycho (BP), I have been binge reading all your articles since I found the link to Pygmalion and the Anime Girl in The American Sun, which I have been reading since 2019.
I appreciate your articles about storytelling since I want to make my own stories as well in visual formats about adult protagonists, globe-trotting adventures and bloody fights (things that appeal to men since time immemorial).
That being said having characters from different parts of our world is a sensible topic as I hesitate to consider some groups that I am biased against, especially concerning groups that I don't have positive views such as Africans, Arabs, South Asians and the Chinese. I have worries whether making a character of any of these 4 as benevolent will make the story as subversive as Big Hollywood productions are since the evidence against them is high.
I will keep in touch with your future articles nevertheless.
There's a lot of great stories from every race, such as the children's TV show "Avatar: The Last Airbender"... modern cinema isn't bad because of the race, race is being used as a humiliation ritual to demoralize the population with a dishonest perspective on reality.
Excellent piece!
Have you by chance read “The Woman Chaser” by Charles Willeford? You brought it to mind for me in two ways. First because I admire the way he handles time and transitions in the story. And second because near the end, the main character gets into a violent struggle about how long his movie should run. The producers have proposed dismembering his work in two different ways, either expanding it into a meaningless television series and discarding the movie distribution, or cutting the movie so severely as to demolish the story.
Interesting, no I never heard of this before. Is it good? Thank you for the kind words.
Yes, Willeford is a remarkable author. His novels are highly philosophical but probably aren’t seen that way by most of his readers.
Thanks for recommending, I had heard of him before but never in any detail.
Dear Billionaire Psycho (BP), I have been binge reading all your articles since I found the link to Pygmalion and the Anime Girl in The American Sun, which I have been reading since 2019.
I appreciate your articles about storytelling since I want to make my own stories as well in visual formats about adult protagonists, globe-trotting adventures and bloody fights (things that appeal to men since time immemorial).
That being said having characters from different parts of our world is a sensible topic as I hesitate to consider some groups that I am biased against, especially concerning groups that I don't have positive views such as Africans, Arabs, South Asians and the Chinese. I have worries whether making a character of any of these 4 as benevolent will make the story as subversive as Big Hollywood productions are since the evidence against them is high.
I will keep in touch with your future articles nevertheless.
Stay Psycho
There's a lot of great stories from every race, such as the children's TV show "Avatar: The Last Airbender"... modern cinema isn't bad because of the race, race is being used as a humiliation ritual to demoralize the population with a dishonest perspective on reality.
That story from the point of view of The Thing was awesome!
I agree, I loved it
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